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The Texas Route 66 Festival capped off 10 days of activities and events on Saturday with a day of pageantry, shopping, live music, and classic cars at the finale celebration presented by Amarillo ...
Amarillo and its Route 66 partners announced Wednesday morning that they plan to hold the Texas Route 66 Festival from June 1 to June 10 this year, to kick off the upcoming Route 66 Centennial ...
Texas Route 66 East Bus Tour - East, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., with stops at iconic landmarks and hotspots through Groom, Jericho, McLean, and Shamrock. (Buses will depart from the Bivins House at 1000 S ...
The Texas Route 66 Festival capped off 10 days of activities and events on Saturday with a day of pageantry, shopping, live music, and classic cars at the finale celebration presented by Amarillo ...
As Amarillo and the High Plains celebrate the inaugural year of the Texas Route 66 Festival in June and continue to look ahead to the historic highway’s centennial anniversary, many have also ...
Route 66 Motel, Palo Duro Motel, Estess Motel, Cowboy Motel the old '50s motor courts along Amarillo Boulevard, part of old Route 66, remind me of my mother. My father always drove on our family va… ...
As a midway point on Route 66, Amarillo is home to its own piece of the iconic highway that runs from Chicago, Illinois—through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona—until ...
Route 66 Motor Tour Car Show 2024: noon-4 p.m., Dream Maker Station. Coors Cowboy Club Ranch Rodeo: 7 p.m., Amarillo National Center. Coors Ranch Rodeo Beers & BBQ: 5 p.m., Amarillo National Center.
As the 100th anniversary of Route 66 approaches in 2026, join us as we spotlight the stops and people who live along America’s highway.
Route 66, sometimes called "Will Rogers Highway," got its name on April 30, 1926. Its golden era was the 20 years or so after World War II, when Americans began buying cars again and hitting the road.
Lee’s father opened the original restaurant on famous Route 66, which cut through downtown Amarillo’s main street. Amarillo is in northern Texas, just south of the Oklahoma panhandle.